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Automotive Guide Tip on Driving a Mobile Car Wash or Auto Detailing Truck

By: Lance Winslow
Automotive:Trucks Guide

For those who are in the business of cleaning and detailing cars on-site or who run a mobile auto detailing or mobile car wash company there are certain things you need to know to insure you do not destroy the transmission in your vehicle.

Water weighs eight pounds per gallon and as it sloshes around that is quite a bit of kinetic energy moving around indeed so when driving a car wash truck towing a trailer with a 200 gallon water tank you know that when you come to a stop it rocks back and forth. This hurts the gears on the transmission whether you have an automatic or a stick shift.

So here is the technique we always used in our company (DetailGuys.com) to stop this. First you come to an almost complete stop slowing down and as the water starts to move forward you slightly let of the brake and thus it rocks the truck back a little slowing the vehicle and then you abruptly stop at the last second. What does this do you ask?

Well, as it starts to rock backwards you tap the brake. This halves the travel of the water backwards and then the two waves in the tank hit each other on the next cycle. Rogue wave inside of the tank going up and down and cancels it out, the shocks on the trailer take it from there and not the transmission. I always use to do this and those who do not will buy new transmissions in their vehicle every couple of years. Consider this in 2006.

Lance Winslow

Automotive Guide Tag : Tip On Driving Mobile Car Wash Auto Detailing

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